RIP Sean Hoare: The New International Whistleblower Is Dead (Like The Company)

“There is an expression called the culture of dark arts. You were given a remit: just get the story. Phone tapping hadn’t just existed on the News of the World … I have gone on the record in the New York Times and said I have stood by Andy [Andy Coulson] and been requested to tap phones, OK, or hack into them. He was well aware the practice existed. To deny it is simply a lie.”

Just to add to the conspiracy, but I shouldn’t really what about the mysterious disappearance and death at Glastonbury recently, its all gone very quiet on that front.

The Media is taking a turn for the Agatha Christie these days- you just couldn’t make it up

dairy

how many sudden demises or disappearances should we wait for before declaring this a sinister attempt at a cover-up or clean-up operation? I am not usually one for conspiracy theories, but this is escalating beyond all expectations….

evil

The death of Sean Hoare HAS to be treated suspiciously , simply due to the timing of it. The whistleblower dies on the day before the Murdochs are due to appear before Parliament , come on !

Everyone in what’s left of the media seems to be promoting Sean Hoare for his heroic whistle blowing and brave stand against the Murdoch’s corporate might. They seem to forget that he only ‘blew’ after he was sacked for drink and drugs problems. It may even be possible that his accusations against Coulson were made up in an attempt to exact revenge on his previous employers and that his timely exit is due to the fact that he was about to be found out to be a liar. Will we ever know?

coolandcalm

It always makes me smile when dying elevates certain people to the status of ‘good’.
Death does not automatically a saint make……
Also he wasn’t a whistleblowere per se…. the hacking stuff was already out there. He merely seconded the information.
Oh well.
RIP Sean.

June

They are having the PM done this a.m, should be interesting the results of the cocktail of drugs and drink…..But he was hardly a down and out despite the alleged drink and drugs and so many heads have rolled so to speak I really doubt this is a revenge hoax accusation.
The letters D A V I D K E L L Y keep springing up

Emma

Yeah well yampster, that was NI’s strategy.

They set about deliberately smearing the whistleblower. So he had problems. So what?

Hoare was a drunken, drug-addicted liar they said. Except everything he claimed appears to have turned out to be true. The fact that you have apparently taken it upon yourself to flog their (now wholly discredited) line speaks volumes. And the guy has just died. Would it be too much to show a little respect?

Personally, I doubt there is anything suspicious about his death. I think he clearly had addiction/mental health issues and alcoholism in particular can cause sudden death through organ failure.

dairy

asking someone to show a little respect is a bit rich coming from you, Emma, don’t you think….? your posts in general show scant respect for others or their opinions if they differ from your own.

It’s OK Dairy, I expected some sort of retort from our resident ‘legal expert’. Anyone who holds an opinion opposite to her perceived truth gets a good sneering. I’m surprised to find her on here today. I thought she’d be at Westminster, searching out the truth there.

June

Yampster

I thought you were playing Devils Advocate just offering another view to make debate happen.

But will we ever know, even with or without Mr Hoare will we ever know?

Emma

Actually, I have no issues with differing opinions generally. As long as they are informed and honestly held. And while I’d love to be at Westminster, I do unfortuantely, have a job.

And I don’t have a ‘perceived truth’. Even Pontius Pilate was aware that truth is ‘variable’.

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coolandcalm

I can’t believe how much I dislike (to put it mildly) Keith Vaz.
What a pompous, ill mannered arse he is…… takes grandstanding to a whole new level. Nasty nasty………

dairy

he’s not the only one either, C&C…..

evil

I don’t think Hoare was about to be found out to be a liar , Paul McMullen has pretty much confirmed that what he said was true. It doesn’t make him heroic , but at least he did us a service.

The problem with assassination is that a good hit will look like an accident or a suicide anyway – unless the perpetrators want you to know its an execution. Can’t see that being the case here. So if it was a hit , lets hope somebody blundered somewhere. According to today’s ‘ Daily Mirror ‘ the guy was afraid for his life and thought that someone was out to get him.

Emma

Vaz is certainly a creep. But this is a VERY poor show by Stephenson. I’m starting to think in a minute they might ask his name and he’ll say that he doesn’t have the information.

Emma

Evil, apparently he was very very ill. I’m not sure what good it would have done NI to off him. He’d already blabbed.

percy

…safe to say …he probably died of the fear of being offed…seen as possible suicide….or overdose….

percy

June…I was thinking the same name as you…. I bet so many are doing the same…

Gary

Being asked to to do something illegal and actually doing it are 2 very different situations. Sadly, upon being asked/ordered to do these terrible things Mr Hoare went ahead and did them. Only deciding to repent and “tell the truth” after being sacked and needing a ‘scoop’ to earn money. It is sad when anyone dies, but this should not automatically change their back-story to that of angels (princess Di et al). RIP Mr Hoare.

Emma

Actually, I never got much feeling of repentance from him. He clearly was in the business of revenge. His only real add to the debate was that he openly called Coulson a liar and said that not only did he know about the hacking, he positively encouraged it.